Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Very Very Southern." Stark Young is known to his friends as an ardent garden er, a collector of objets d'art, "a character, " a wit and a superb teller of un printable stories. He was born in Como, Miss, in 1881. Papa Young was a doctor who, says Stark, would have preferred the role of Southern planter of which the Civil War deprived him. Mama Young was ''very very Scotch, and very very Southern." Stark Young, as his romanticism and rhetoric show, is pretty Southern him self...
California's 73-year-old Amadeo Peter Giannini is probably the world's most ardent exponent of branch banking. His huge Bank of America, fourth largest bank in the U.S., is an agglomerate of 30 years of Giannini acquisitions. Its 487 branches blanket the state of California. Its parent company, Transamerica Corp. (whose stock is so popular with California Italians that it sometimes accounts for almost half the trading on the San Francisco Stock Exchange), owns a majority interest in 23 other West Coast banks, plus a juicy 8.7% of Manhattan's National City Bank...
...symbol of success in unselfishness in the Army is the timeless, ever-present devotion of the good noncommissioned officer and the officer toward their men. The symbol of greatest efforts and infinite pains is in the faithful, ardent, forceful, continuous training of every man to be a soldier, not cannon fodder...
...guff pours out of station CKLW (Detroit-Windsor) for no less than three and a half hours six mornings a week (Mon. through Sat., 6-9:30 a.m., E.W.T.). Through some quirk of the radio waves, surprised U.S. Army pilots on the New Guinea run pick it up, write ardent fan letters. Hosts of Detroiters are equally enthusiastic about The Early Morning Frolic and the pair of wacky mimics who operate...
Kaishek, in the catholic nature of Chinese thought. It is in the heritage of a people "ardent with desire to rebuild their country," a desire with the force of "a tidal wave which will absorb the energies of our people for a century. . . ." It is as clear and tangible as the potential power of the Yangtze, the Great River, that roars through the gorges below the city, falling 16,000 feet from the Kunlun Ranges, while the millions who live beside it work through their brief years in ignorance of the power and light it might bring them...